Journal Article A Note on Variable Prices and Foreign Trade Multipliers Get access W. Beckerman W. Beckerman Paris Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 21, Issue 2, 1953, Pages 162–164, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296008 Published: 01 January 1953

THE basic question to which this paper is addressed is "What is the importance of distance in determining the pattern of Western European trade?"The importance of distance in the pattern of trade has, of course, always been recognized.The assumption of "no transport costs," which has always been necessary in expositions of theories of international trade, is a recognition of the fact that transport costs, that is, the costs of covering distance, exist and are significant; so that abstraction from them has to be made quite explicitly in order to analyze other elements such as factor endowments.' 0 0 t 0 0 0 "inCq 0 e oo HO ~, "d0 80 8 00 0 * .. 99"o 'A-.

Journal Article The Future of the United Kingdom's Long-Term Contracts Get access W. Beckerman W. Beckerman Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1952, Pages 70–77, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296163 Published: 01 January 1952